Lakshman wrote: > Whats is the python urllib2 equivallent of > > curl -u username:password status="abcd" http://example.com/update.json > > I did this: > > handle = urllib2.Request(url) > authheader = "Basic %s" % base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % (username, > password)) > handle.add_header("Authorization", authheader) > > Is there a better / simpler way?
Better? Yes. Simpler? No. Actually, the proper way using the urllib2 API is more code. When I need it some time ago, I googled and used this recipe: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/urllib2.shtml#id6 # create a password manager password_mgr = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm() # Add the username and password. # If we knew the realm, we could use it instead of ``None``. top_level_url = "http://example.com/foo/"; password_mgr.add_password(None, top_level_url, username, password) handler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(password_mgr) # create "opener" (OpenerDirector instance) opener = urllib2.build_opener(handler) # use the opener to fetch a URL opener.open(a_url) # Install the opener. # Now all calls to urllib2.urlopen use our opener. urllib2.install_opener(opener) -- Gerhard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
